Big Question series, latest chat, patient's AI medical journey, and more
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March 6, 2025
The Big Question: New Series Begins Watch the first episode with Anthony Fauci.
The Hastings Center is teaming up with the Museum of Science in Boston for Season 2 of The Big Question, which premiered with a conversation featuring Anthony Fauci; Insoo Hyun, a Hastings Center Fellow and Director of the Center for Life Sciences at the Museum; and Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky. They discussed today’s critical health challenges, including lessons learned during Covid-19 and the growing mistrust in science. Watch the episode.
Remembering Tom Beauchamp Towering figure in bioethics
The Hastings Center's board and staff mourn the loss of Tom Beauchamp III, a towering figure in the field of bioethics, who passed away on February 19. Tom, a Hastings Center Fellow, was professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and a senior research scholar (retired) at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Read more.
Bioethics Chats: Michele Goodwin She discusses challenges to reproductive justice and gives surprising advice to junior scholars.
The latest in our Bioethics Chats series features Michele Goodwin, JD, LLM, SJD, the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown University and a Hastings Center Fellow. She helped establish and shape the field of health law and is a prominent voice in the media. Goodwin and Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky chat about reproductive justice – one of Goodwin’s areas of work – and the challenges she sees today. She has advice for early-career scholars that may seem surprising coming from someone as accomplished as she is. Read the chat and watch a clip.
Building Climate Resilience in the Caribbean Watch the webinar, read the essays.
Caribbean basin countries are experiencing some of the most destabilizing impacts of climate change. In a recent Hastings Center webinar, public health experts and bioethicists discussed ideas for building resilience to climate change. Watch the webinar. The webinar is in English with a Spanish transcript.
The webinar included authors of new essays in Voices in Bioethics from the Caribbean Basin: Climate, Health, and Ethics, the culmination of the yearlong Climate Bioethics Program, a project of The Hastings Center and the Caribbean Research Ethics Initiative (CREEi) and Clarkson University. Read the essays in English and Spanish.
New from Hastings on the Hill Understanding a patient's medical AI journey
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into U.S. health care, patients should know the ways in which AI is being used in their care, concludes a new paper by the research team of Hastings on the Hill, an initiative to translate bioethics research on medical AI for policymakers and health care practitioners. The project develops informational tools that can aid the process for responsible governance and delivery of care. One such tool is a “Patient’s Medical AI Journey,” mapping regulatory and ethical aspects of some key interactions that patients have with AI. Learn more and read the article.
Hastings on the Hill, funded by The Greenwall Foundation with support from The Donaghue Foundation and National Institute of Health’s Bridge 2AI initiative, offers two-way engagement to understand and convey different perspectives supporting responsible regulation. Learn more.
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